The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson: Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway LocomotiveHarper, 1868 - 501 páginas |
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... give an additional number of 39,405,600 jour- neys , or a total of 313,699,268 passengers carried in Great Brit- ain in one year . It is difficult to grasp the idea of the enormous number of per- sons represented by these figures . The ...
... give an additional number of 39,405,600 jour- neys , or a total of 313,699,268 passengers carried in Great Brit- ain in one year . It is difficult to grasp the idea of the enormous number of per- sons represented by these figures . The ...
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... gives an account of its performances as fol- lows : " Purposing to visit Grotius , Peireskius went to Scheveling that he might satisfy himself of the carriage and swiftness of a coach a few years before invented , and made with that ...
... gives an account of its performances as fol- lows : " Purposing to visit Grotius , Peireskius went to Scheveling that he might satisfy himself of the carriage and swiftness of a coach a few years before invented , and made with that ...
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... give up his locomotive - engine scheme ; but , if he could not succeed in that , then , rather than lose Murdock's services , Watt proposed that he should be allowed an advance of £ 100 to enable him to prosecute his experiments , and ...
... give up his locomotive - engine scheme ; but , if he could not succeed in that , then , rather than lose Murdock's services , Watt proposed that he should be allowed an advance of £ 100 to enable him to prosecute his experiments , and ...
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... give scope for his inventive skill . In whatever work he was employed , he was sure to introduce new methods and arrangements , if not new inventions . He was full of speculative enthusiasm , a great theorist , and yet an indefatiga ...
... give scope for his inventive skill . In whatever work he was employed , he was sure to introduce new methods and arrangements , if not new inventions . He was full of speculative enthusiasm , a great theorist , and yet an indefatiga ...
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... give him an opportunity of testing the value of his last in- vention that of a vessel driven by the ejection of water through a tube - and he went there to superintend the construction of the necessary engine and apparatus . The vessel ...
... give him an opportunity of testing the value of his last in- vention that of a vessel driven by the ejection of water through a tube - and he went there to superintend the construction of the necessary engine and apparatus . The vessel ...
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